Egyptian armed forces spokesperson, Tamer al-Refaei, said Saturday that army forces arrested three Takfiri members in North Sinai. Refaei said in the statement that two pickup cars loaded with marijuana have been confiscated as well. He added that the forces found … read more
The British government faced questions about transparency in regard to nearly £ 2 million in aid to Egypt, that was directed towards security projects for the country, including support for policing, the criminal justice system and the treatment of juvenile … read more
Five people were killed and at least 60 others injured when two buses collided on a highway just outside the city of Suez, state new agency MENA and Al-Ahram Arabic website reported. Eyewitnesses said one bus, which was travelling on … read more
Hundreds of the Egyptian Spinning and Weaving Company workers moved their sit-in, on Tuesday, from the company’s factories in Mahalla city, Gharbiya, to the front of the company’s headquarters on Talaat Harb Street in Cairo, to protest the Cabinet negligence … read more
A non-commissioned police officer was fatal shot and killed on Tuesday morning by anonymous militants in the North Sinai city of Al-Arish. According to the state-run newspaper of Al-Ahram, the North Sinai Security Directorate received a notification that officer, Ayman … read more
EgyptAir denied in a statement, on Monday afternoon, that it operated a flight to Kuwait on Sunday despite a technical malfunction in the aircraft. The plane that malfunctioned belongs to a private company, not EgyptAir, the statement added. A news … read more
In a small studio littered with empty cigarette packets in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria, Abdelrahman al-Habrouk sits hunched over a sheet of paper making portraits with tobacco. The cigarettes fuel his art; he breaks them in half, painstakingly traces out … read more
Egypt’s army foiled a militant car-bomb attack in North Sinai on Tuesday, the military said in a statement. The armed forces, including the air force, discovered and destroyed a militant hideout used to conduct terrorist operations against the military, said … read more
About 44.8 percent of Egyptian households dispose of their garbage by dumping it onto the street, while 55.2 percent get rid of it through cleaning companies and garbage collectors, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). … read more
In a report, on Saturday, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced that the age bracket 18-29 accounts for 21.7 million people in the country and represents 23.6 per cent of Egypt’s total population. 26.7 percent of people 18-29 … read more